Mellon Foundation Gives $1.02 Million to New Critical Theory Initiative
Release Date:
03/30/2017
... critical theory, a stream of philosophy that critiques the ways culture is formed and discussed. German Prof. Peter ...
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Staten Island Foundation Supports Worker-Owned Co-Op Businesses Starting Up on Staten Island
Release Date:
06/20/2017
... Co-Op Businesses Starting Up on Staten Island Four women are meeting one last time, putting together final details, ...
Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... Swimming Foundation. More minority and low-income children are finding their way into the water. And in New York City, they are helped in part by a growing array of free lessons, such ...
To Change The World, “Eat What You Buy, And Stop Buying More Than You’ll Eat”
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... ensuring students receive quality meals in schools and are learning ways to make healthy, informed choices about the food they ...
One 'Dreamer' Vows to Finish Med School in The Face of DACA Chaos
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... DACA, with a mixture of resignation and resolve. "In some ways there's a lot of uncertainty, but I have dealt with .....
Editorial: A Promising Idea To Fight Opioids
Release Date:
09/12/2017
Peconic Care, a proposed addiction treatment facility, promises to deal with the opioid crisis in a way that exists nowhere else in the country.
Reed: Dreamer Bill Could Be Part Of Broader Border Security Legislation
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Southern Tier Republican Rep. Tom Reed said he’s in favor of a permanent solution for former Deferred Action of Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients. He believes there is far-reaching support for legislation to help undocumented immigrants who came...
Middle-Class Incomes Rise, But Census Report Shows Worrying Disparities
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... a financial crisis and deep recession walloped workers in ways that were still felt years later. . . Middle-Class ...
Refugees Rent Trump’s Childhood Home To Send Message To UN Leaders
Release Date:
09/19/2017
President Donald Trump’s childhood home in New York had some new occupants over the weekend — refugees who shared their stories as a way to draw attention to the refugee crisis as the United Nations General Assembly convenes this week with Trump in...
New School Year, New Complaints About Contaminated Food Given To NYC Students
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... NYC Students Just days into the new school year, there are already problems with the food served to New York ... Marcia Kramer reported exclusively Tuesday, questions are now being raised about servings of kid...
Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself
Release Date:
09/25/2017
In his book ‘The Way to Design,” Steve Vassalo quotes John Arnold, who taught a course at Stanford in the early ‘60s called ‘How to Ask a Question’: “Each of man’s advances was started by a question….Knowing what questions to ask and how to ask them...
How Much Time Was Spent on Subway? M.T.A. Can Now Tell You
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... were spent on delayed trains or crowded platforms? These are questions for which, until now, there were no easy ...
How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... yet another part of American life reserved for those who are most privileged. Fewer Americans are marrying over all, and whether they do so is more tied to ... 56 percent of middle- and upper-class adults ages...
Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program
Release Date:
09/26/2017
Stanford University Press’s digital publishing program gives scholars an extraordinary opportunity to publish and peer review their interactive scholarship.
De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection
Release Date:
10/03/2017
Mayor de Blasio will officially name Vincent Sapienza commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, more than a year after the last permanent head left.
Johnson & Johnson Joins the Coalition for the American Dream
Release Date:
01/05/2018
... solutions to more people, in more countries, requires new ways of thinking. That’s how we’ll continue to change the ...
New Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations
Release Date:
02/21/2018
Detroit-based LUCK stands for Learning Under Correct Knowledge , helping returning citizens, those newly released from prison.
Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism
Release Date:
02/23/2018
... Racism Racial disparities in philanthropic giving are fundamentally about whom we trust to lead us to change, ... — assumptions that pose as common sense — if we are ever going to make true progress in...
William T. Grant Foundation Focuses on Inequality Research
Release Date:
05/04/2018
... decision makers, responds to their needs, and is used in ways that benefit youth. The foundation is particularly ...
Funded in Part By The Charles H. Revson Foundation, NPR Reports on Puerto Rico’s Financial Storm
Release Date:
06/27/2018
... Reports on Puerto Rico’s Financial Storm Puerto Ricans are still rebuilding after Hurricane María devastated the ... been on the effects of the Hurricane. Nonetheless, in some ways , the bigger story when it...